SEAS: a system for early analysis of SoCs

  • Authors:
  • Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi;Youngsoo Shin;Nagu Dhanwada;Subhrajit Bhattacharya;William E. Dougherty;Indira Nair;John Darringer;Sarala Paliwal

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM EDA Laboratory, Fishkill, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM EDA Laboratory, Fishkill, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM EDA Laboratory, Fishkill, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Systems-on-chip (SoC) continue to be very complex to design and verify, despite extensive component reuse. Although reusable components are pre-designed and pre-verified, when they are assembled in an SoC there is no guarantee that the whole system will behave as expected from a performance, cost and integration point of view. In many cases this is because of faulty early design decisions regarding the architecture, core selection, floorplanning, etc. This paper presents a system for early analysis of SoCs which helps designers make early design decisions regarding performance, area, timing and power; and allows them to quickly evaluate cross-domain effects, such as the effect that an architectural decision may have on the performance and chip area.